Shoe-lace.



N0. 813,949. PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906. W. H. GLING.

SHOB LAGE.

.urnmum1r nun 1:12.10. 1004.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Applioa,tion filed Merck 10,1904. Serial N0. 197,605.

T0 all whom it may convern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY CLING, a citizen 0f the United States, and a resident 0f Charleston, in the couny of' Charleston and Staate of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Laces, of Whieh the following is a specifieation.

The object 0f' my invention is to provide an attaehment for ordina.ry flexible shoelaees Which Will enable them t0 be easily tied 0r festened in such manner that they Will not. beeome accidentally loosened 0r untied in ordinary use.

The attaehmen is constructed and applied in e manner hereinefter described, and illustrated in the aeeompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the upper portion 0f e laee high shoe hsving my improved lece applied thereto as in actual use. Fig. 2 is a plan view 0f my improved laee tied and formed es a bow, es used 0n Iadies 10W shoes. Fi 3 is a view of the sttachment proper or t e flexible wire having coiled ends the lese preper being indieated by dette lines. Fig. 4 1's a view showing the Iace fastened by twisting the end portmns so ether, the ends 0f the lace proper being ie t free. Fig. 5 1's a view further iilustreting the errangement 0f the flexible wires when interlinked 01 twisted together.

A indicates a st0ut end easfly-flexible WiIe, which is applied to an ordinary shoe-Iace ab points between its middle and end pertions, the latter being left free. The wire A extends along the lace end is secured by eoiling er twistin its ende around the lace, as indiceted et C. lt Will be noted that in the preferred ferm of my invention the 0uter coil 01 twist B is located some distsnce h'om the end 0f the lace, so that a considerable portion 0f the latter is left entirely flexible and free. This feature has considerable importance, since the ende 0f the lace have not only the ordinary eppearence and hang pendent, es usual, but they may be seized and subjected 130 tracion f01 manipulating and fastening the laee, es shown and deseribed, and in such operation there is practieelly 110 traction 011 the wire A, and eonse uently its eoils B C are not lieble t0 slip er s 1de 0n the lang pr0per, es they would otherwise tend to o.

In reetieal use my improved lese is forma? of two perts 01' portions, 0ne being a flexible ieee, such es is in common use, and the other a flexible stiffening-wire. Such comgound lace is applied t0 a shoe in the usua wey, it being passed elternately er from side t0 side around opposite hooks, end those portions of the lese 0f Whieh the wire A fernes a perc are passed around the top h00k and then twisted together er loeped arouzed eaeh other es shown best in Figs. 1, 4, and 5.

The ends 0f the la.ce being left free, the lese has a better ap earanee end simuletes one of the ordinary 'nd. A lese previded with this at'5achment may be verv eesiiy anal quickly tied er fastened end Wfll not become leosened 01' released es ordinary leees tend t0 (i0, especially by reason of the friction With the bottom edge 0f trousers 01 skirts. It is apparent thet 1t ms be instantl released 01 unfastened by simp y bending t e looped or tvvisted portions in the direction reverse t0 that required f0r festening it.

What I claim is- The improved shoe-lace, comprising the flexible lese proper of erdinery construction, and the flexible wire which 1's ettaehed theret0, the ends B, C, 0f the wire being twisted tightly about the lace proper and the bodv of the seid wire being extended along such lace between sueh points 0f attachment, end the ends 0f the lace proper being left free, substantielly es described.

WILLIAM HENRY CLING.

Witnesses:

A. B. HASE, G. H. EDWARDS 

